descents
USduh-SENTS/dəˈsɛnts/UKdi-SENTS/dɪˈsɛnts/
- 1Plural of descent.
The pilot logged several steep descents during the training flight.
Climbers fear sudden descents more than the long climb upward.
Note
A regular -s plural that serves every meaning of descent at once: downward movements, ways down, sloping passages, falls in fortune, invasions, lines of ancestry. Each meaning can be counted or left uncountable, and the plural belongs to the counted uses, such as several steep descents on one flight or two descents into the valley. In the mass use, as in of noble descent, no plural is needed.
descents is a form of descent
descent, noun: The act of coming down from a higher position to a lower one. Full entry
- Forms
- descentdescents plural
- Spelling
- descent → descents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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